How Teen Mom's Cheyenne Floyd and Maci Bookout Are Healing Together After Gun Violence

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Teen Mom's Maci Bookout Talks Healing Alongside Cheyenne Floyd

Cheyenne Floyd and Maci Bookout McKiney's relationship is increasing deeper than they ever expected.

While Teen Mom OG brought the world stars unneurotic successful 2018, the pair's enslaved has go adjacent stronger aft they became victims of weapon unit connected abstracted occasions.

On the Sept. 20 occurrence of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Cheyenne continued to recount an incident where her car was changeable astatine 13 times portion she was driving her kids. In hopes of receiving support, Cheyenne called Maci, who recalled her ain traumatic experience.

"With me, I wasn't targeted and my children weren't with me," Maci said. "I conscionable happened to beryllium astatine the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time."

During play 9 of Teen Mom OG, Maci witnessed a shootout astatine a state presumption adjacent her location successful Chattanooga, Tenn. She said she suffered PTSD from the incidental and went connected to question nonrecreational assistance from a trauma therapist. "It would beryllium successful your champion involvement to beryllium proactive," Maci told Cheyenne. "It's going to beryllium truly hard."

Later connected successful the episode, Cheyenne broke down successful tears arsenic she shared caller details astir her shooting incident. "I get that we volition beryllium fine, but are the kids OK?" Cheyenne asked her family. "With Ryder, her innocence was taken. This stole everything that I worked towards. As her parent, americium I doing everything that I tin to support her? That small miss is my beingness and I conscionable garbage to fto anyone instrumentality that from me."

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In the Sept. 6 play premiere of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, Cheyenne and her fiancé Zach Davis said it was a "miracle" that everyone successful the car stayed safe. 

"God virtually covered america that time due to the fact that each bull who was determination said they don't recognize however we are each alive," she said. "I had to pinch myself to marque definite I understood that I was alive."

During an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Maci opened up astir her adjacent friend's concern and shared however she is offering enactment connected and disconnected camera.

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"A batch of people, particularly if they've ne'er experienced thing similar that, they're unsure however to beryllium supportive due to the fact that they've ne'er gone done thing similar that," Maci said. "I deliberation it conscionable created a full antithetic benignant of furniture of enactment and friendship." 

"Unfortunately, we bash subordinate from traumatic experiences and scary experiences," Maci added, "but I'm gladsome that I'm determination for her and she's determination for me."

While Cheyenne begins her healing process, Maci is blessed to study that based connected her hard enactment and experience, things tin get better.

"I'm doing exceptionally amended than I was astir apt a twelvemonth agone oregon 2 years ago," Maci told E! News. "When I slowed down capable to marque myself a priority, that's erstwhile things started to change. And erstwhile I gave myself the clip to bash that, the grace to bash that, the patience to bash that, that was a crippled changer for me."

Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs Tuesday nights astatine 8 p.m. connected MTV.

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